57Codes of practice

57 Codes of practice

(1)  The Director of Public Health, by public notice, may approve as a code of practice the whole or part of any code of practice, standard, rule, specification or guidelines, with or without modification, that is issued, prescribed, made or published by any person that relates to any of the following matters:

(a) the use, manufacture, sale, acquisition, possession, storage, transport, installation, servicing, repairing or disposal of, or other dealing with, a radiation source;

(b) standards of compliance for –

(i) a radiation source for carrying out a radiation practice; or

(ii) a radiation place.

(2)  The public notice must state where copies of the code of practice, standard, rule, specification or guidelines may be inspected during normal business hours.

(3)  The Director of Public Health is to ensure copies of the code of practice, standard, rule, specification or guidelines are available for inspection, free of charge, at the place stated in the notice during normal business hours.

(4)  A contravention of a code of practice, standard, rule or specification does not of itself constitute an offence against this Act.

(5)  A public notice under subsection (1)  –

(a) is not a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953 ; and

(b) may not be declared under the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 to be subordinate legislation for the purposes of that Act.